The disastrous Cuban performance in the World Boxing 2025 World Championship that has just taken place in the English city of Liverpool is a sign that what happened in Paris 2024 was not a conjunctural event.
Havana.- Now in the English city of Liverpool, for the first time in world championships, Cuban boxers They left without obtaining gold medals
The disastrous Cuban performance in the World Boxing 2025 World Championship that has just taken place in the English city of Liverpool is a sign that what happened in Paris 2024 was not a conjunctural event.
In the Olympic Games held in the French capital last year, the island boxers left with a single gold medal, the one reached by Erislandy Alvarezin addition to the bronze medal that Arlen López obtained.
That performance in Paris launched the image that the boxing of “flagship” of Cuban sport had, because until that moment it had been the specialty that gave the country the largest number of medals in all kinds of international events.
Four years before, in the Olympiad of Tokyo 2020, Cuban boxing had won four gold medals, asserting the condition above. On that occasion were headlines Arlen López, Julio César La Cruz, Roniel Iglesias and Andy Cruz, who emerged as one of the figures that the Cuban Boxing School would have to shine in all the competencies that were coming.
As is known, Andy Cruz broke his links with the Cuban Boxing Federation, abandoned the country, and already abroad has started a professional career that seems to give him many successes.
Now in Liverpool, for the first time in world championships, Cuba closes his performance without gold medals. With an initial squad of eight boxers, only three of them could access the medals. Julio César La Cruz in the 90 kilograms, Alejandro Claro in the 50 kilograms and Erislandy Alvarez in the 65 kilograms obtained two bronze medals.
The cross was defeated in the semifinals by the Kazakh Aibek Oralbay, which interrupted five consecutive World Cups obtaining the gold medal. Alejandro Claro also ended with the bronze, matching the performance that two years had obtained before in the Uzbeka city in Tasken. On the other hand, Erislandy Alvarez suffered an unexpected defeat against Brazilian Yuri Falcao, who threw his favoritism to impose himself in this fair.
This Cuban collapse, partially justified by the technicians of the national team for the low Cuban participation in international tournaments before the main competition, puts on the mat, among other things, the convenience of making changes in the technical commission of this sport.
After the Cuban performance in Paris 2024 there were some changes of federative, but remained at Rolando Aceval with the main coach of the Cuban boxing squad. It is likely then that the presence of Aceval at the head of the coaches is coming to an end.
On the other hand, it has transpired that Arlen López, Roniel Iglesias and Lázaro Alvarez have decided to dedicate their efforts to their careers in professional boxing, so they should not be available for future Olympic and world competitions such as this one that has just taken place in Liverpool.
But, whether for one reason or another, the truth is that the bump through which Cuban boxing is currently traveling is very bad news for Castro sport. The sport that generally dubested in the Cuban medallero, the so -called “flagship” of national sport is shipwrecked in irreverent waters where Uzbekos, Kazakh and Russians seem to take the best part.
In the American city of Los Angeles, in 2028, without boxing leadership, it is very unlikely that the Cuban representation is among the first twenty countries in the medallero.
